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4.
HIV infection and AIDS among young people
58. Governments should develop accessible, available and affordable primary
health care services of high quality, including sexual and reproductive health
care, as well as education programmes, including those related to sexually
transmitted disease, including HIV/AIDS, for youth. Continued international
cooperation and collective global efforts are necessary for the containment of
HIV/AIDS.
5.
Promotion of good sanitation and hygiene practices
59. Governments, in cooperation with youth and volunteer organizations,
should promote the establishment of youth health associations to promote good
sanitation and hygiene programmes.
6.
Prevention of disease and illness among youth
resulting from poor health practices
60. Governments, in cooperation with youth organizations, should promote
healthier lifestyles and, in this context, should investigate the possibility
of adopting policies for discouraging drug, tobacco and alcohol abuse,
including possibly banning the advertisement of tobacco and alcohol. They
should also undertake programmes to inform young people about the adverse
effects of drug and alcohol abuse and tobacco addiction.
61. Programmes should be instituted, with the appropriate assistance of the
United Nations bodies and organizations concerned, to train medical,
paramedical, educational and youth work personnel in health issues of
particular concern to young people, including healthy lifestyles. Research
into such issues should be promoted, particularly research into the effects
and treatment of drug abuse and addiction. Youth organizations should be
enlisted in these efforts.
7.
Elimination of sexual abuse of young people
62. As recommended by the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, 7/ the
International Conference on Population and Development, 3/ the World Summit
for Social Development 4/ and the Fourth World Conference on Women, 5/ and
bearing in mind that young women are specially vulnerable, Governments should
cooperate at the international level and take effective steps, including
specific preventive measures to protect children, adolescents and youth from
neglect, abandonment and all types of exploitation and abuse, such as
abduction, rape and incest, pornography, trafficking and acts of paedophilia,
as well as from commercial sexual exploitation resulting from pornography and
prostitution. 9/ Governments should enact and enforce legislation
prohibiting female genital mutilation wherever it exists and give vigorous
9/
Report of the International Conference on Population and
Development, Cairo, 5-13 September 1994 (United Nations publication, Sales No.
E.95.XIII.18) chap. I, resolution 1, annex, para. 6.9.
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